Music: Change of Art

Once upon a time Lotte Lehmann had her fortune told. The fortune
teller's prediction tickled her (says she) more than the praise and
plaudits which operatic fame have since brought her. The seer told her
"that a new door was slowly opening for me, a door leading to great
success in another branch of art." At ten the door opened a crack when
Mme Lehmann sold poems to Berlin's Der Tag. In that struggling season
she was still being told that she had "no voice." With occasional
articles, a book of memoirs, she managed...